StoryCorps is an independent nonprofit whose mission is to provide Americans of all backgrounds and beliefs with the opportunity to record, share, and preserve the stories of our lives. Since 2003, StoryCorps has collected and archived more than 40,000 interviews from nearly 80,000 participants. Presented here are favorites from past visits alongside stories being collected now at the booth in Chicago. Produced by WBEZ, with interviews recorded by StoryCorps.

Record interview with your family and friends right here in Chicago at the StoryCorps StoryBooth, located at the Chicago Cultural Center.

Pidgeon Pagonis had vague memories and dreams of hospital visits, and there were things about her body that she couldn’t explain. But she didn’t know why until one day in her psychology class at DePaul University.

A Chicago woman whose husband has Alzheimer’s is refusing to let the disease slow their life or travels together. “Every day he asks me where we are, but then we figure out where we are, and we go do what we’ve always done.”